the deconfliction line

Russia sent
 the regime of proxy aircraft
 and special ops.

 attacking  an accidental confrontation
 mitigates the danger.

 Russia swallowed
took a step that  could not legally expand.

 mission creep emerges
 on the opposite side
 worried that it looks
too much like
 a de facto.  imperial

bilateral military-to-military is real,
even with the deconfliction channel  open.